- logged into Payday 2
- joined lobby full of strangers
- put on Trump mask
- typed in chat box "This heist is gonna be YUUUGE"
- immediately kicked from lobby

10/10 would Make Online Gaming Great Again

ruined my life

After years of thinking about an awesome game ruined by it's live service, after years of unspoken competition between Killing Floor 2 and Payday 2, I can easily announce that Payday 2 is the ultimate game in that regard. Downgraded visuals, abysmal optimization, broken balance, broken AI, a huge degradation in artstyle, lackluster heists with awful story plots and twists, milking every last penny out of the game. There is no game anymore here. It is a game where you pick 2 builds and either you gun down swarms of enemies (and by that I mean SWARMS) or either you just jump around dodging AIs detection percentages. That's it. You're playing with same IZHMA 12G in loud or "stealthing" with the same Judge. Nothing changes. Absolutely no replayability. All the mechanics that are supposed to make the game replayable were just broken over the course of time. Game is just stale, boring, broken, and laggy. This is the prime example of how not to make your game live service. Starbreeze and Overkill should've gone bankrupt in 2015.